Improve your Performance with High Quality Hair Cutting Shears

Hair cutting shears are necessary and in order to buy the best one, you need to keep one thing in mind that it must be comfortable while using. Hair cutting shears are of no use if they cause you uncomfort, hand fatigue and also develop any chances of carpel tunnel syndrome or RSI. Different kinds of hair cutting jobs require different kinds of hair cutting shears and this is the reason why you may have seen hair dressers with a lot many different hair cutting shears. There are few things to keep in mind while purchasing one for yourself in order to improve the performance of your work.

1. Choose yourself a perfect size of Hair Cutting Shears: 

For choosing the perfect size you need to be very clear about the scissors that fit you, it may be short or long. The size can be measured from the length of the tip to the end of the finger hole. The finger resting place is not counted while measuring.

So the best way to measure and finding out the best of the hair cutting shears is to put the scissors on the palm with the finger hole on the base of the thumb with the tip of the scissors blade on the last section of your middle finger.

2. Choose perfect blade:

While choosing the scissors, the blades must also be kept in mind. So when we talk about the blade of the scissors, that means that the blades are convex and beveled edged. You can spend a reasonable or a very good amount in buying it because they are the crux of hair dressing. You can decide which are the perfect and comfortable ones while choosing the blades.

Upon further research, it is reported that the hair cutting shears blades that are beveled edge blades and are made up of a mixture of different metals are usually light weight. The scissors that are made in Europe comes with the micro serrations design of the blade on both the sides. These type of blades are the latest and very unique. It fits to the new entry level hair stylists. It provides the major help while cutting down dry and slow detailed hair without causing them any harm. For the cutting you can’t use it because it may block the hair between the blade sides but the polished beveled edge blade for slicing is your one and only perfect option.

The Convex Blades, also known as the Japanese Style, are hollow ground on the inside that makes them the sharpest one resulting in to giving you the smoothest cutting action and perfectly cutting hair. Their price range might be a little bit higher with requirement of a professional hand to use it but a proper set of care and the constant service giving can end into providing them a longer time span to survive.

Hair scissors differ on the basis of the hands that use them and the shape and size that fits in that hand, the best. There are quite a many types of handles and the main types are

• Level or Even Handle: These are the ones that are common and symmetrical
• The Offset Handle: These are the ones that has one side longer than the other so it is no difficulty when you have your hands open and the arm and elbow are also in lower position while performing a haircut.
• The Crane Handle: This is the handle physically appears to be an offset. It has its top handle in a straight position which eventually allows the lower elbow position easily.
• The Twister or Flex Handle: It minimizes the hand tiredness and arm tiredness.

It very obvious that many left-handed stylists get used to the regular scissors, but the market also offers specially designed left handed hair cutting scissors for them to make the cutting is more natural, with no need for extra force. It’s always astute to practice the correct metal scissor configuration for your dominant hand.

High-end shears come with steel blades, but there are other fabrics used, especially for the handles.
Try to check the tension on your scissors by fully opening the scissors and then let the blade drop freely towards fully closed. In case of correct tension, it should stop nice and easy at the ten-to-the-hour position.

If we speak about how often you need to sharpen your scissors, it’s better to know that this depends on how much you use them, what type of cutting you do, how you take care of it and the type of blade you are using. Some check the scissors every 3-6 months, whereas most do it once a year.

The most important question is what do you need for the scissors is the most important question when choosing one? If you do thinning, you would need thinning scissors, whereas for the slicing you would want convex blades. So basically every professional hairstylist needs The Right Shear for the Right Hair.